Photo caption Webster's Third Dictionary became infamous after mistaken reports that it treated "ain't" as proper English. Dona Bagley July/August 2009 Volume 30, Issue 4 SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issues Sign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter Also in this issue Proud Flesh A recollection of Wallace Stegner Kenneth Fields What IF? The book gives way to the download, and solitary reading transforms into virtual conversations Steve Moyer Reverberations of the Fourth of July Revisiting Frederick Douglass's landmark anti-slavery speech of July 5, 1852 Laura Wolff Scanlan Khrushchev in Iowa Coon Rapids, Iowa, was crawling with spies. Michael Knock Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby A meeting with Ansel Adams sealed a photographer's future Laura Wolff Scanlan Time Travels Looking for antiquity in Iowa Amy Lifson Baskerville Hounded Copyright and the plight of English publishers NEH Staff Wild Time in the Poconos Prince Maximilian of Wied visits Pennsylvania NEH Staff Good Stable Manners NEH Staff Teenie Harris Image Collection NEH Staff Comanche Robe NEH Staff Reading Into the Great Depression A Conversation with Morris Dickstein NEH Staff Impertinent Questions with Alan Houston On the cosmopolitan Benjamin Franklin. Meredith Hindley Maryland’s Phoebe Stein Davis Phoebe Stein Davis is determined to make the humanities relevant. Donna M. Lucey Editor's Note What Books Are For David Skinner
What IF? The book gives way to the download, and solitary reading transforms into virtual conversations Steve Moyer
Reverberations of the Fourth of July Revisiting Frederick Douglass's landmark anti-slavery speech of July 5, 1852 Laura Wolff Scanlan
Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby A meeting with Ansel Adams sealed a photographer's future Laura Wolff Scanlan
Maryland’s Phoebe Stein Davis Phoebe Stein Davis is determined to make the humanities relevant. Donna M. Lucey
